Process Development for Permanganate Addition during Oxidative Leaching of Hanford Tank Sludge Simulants

Characterization of Actinides in Simulated Alkaline Tank Waste Sludges and Leachates

Treatment of underground tanks at Hanford with concentrated alkali to improve removal of wastelimiting components of sludges has proven less efficacious for Al and Cr removal than had been hoped. Hence, more aggressive treatments of sludges, including contact with oxidants targeting Cr(III), have been tested in a limited number of samples and found to enhance Cr removal. Unfortunately, treatmen...

Dynamic Simulation of Hanford Tank Waste Remediation System

Cleaning up and disposing of approximately 50 years of nuclear waste is the main mission at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation, located in the southeastern part of the state of Washington. A major element of the total cleanup effort involves retrieving, processing, and disposing of radioactive and hazardous waste stored in 177 underground storage tanks. referred to as t...

Behavior of Uranium(VI) during HEDPA Leaching for Aluminum Dissolution in Tank Waste Sludges

Batch adsorption/dissolution experiments were conducted to examine the interactions between U(VI) and a synthetic aluminum oxyhydroxide (boehmite, γ-AlOOH) in 1.0M NaCl suspensions containing 1-hydroxyethane-1,1-diphosphonic acid (HEDPA). In the pH range 4 to 9, complexation of Al(III) by HEDPA significantly enhanced dissolution of boehmite. This phenomenon was especially pronounced in the neut...

Recycling of Cu powder from industrial sludge by combined acid leaching, chemical exchange and ferrite process.

A method in combination of acid leaching, chemical exchange and ferrite process was applied to recycle copper and confer higher chemical stability to the sludge generated from etching process in printed circuit board industry. Ninety-five percent copper could be recycled in the form of powder from the sludge. Moreover, not only the wastewater after chemical exchange can be treated to fulfill th...

Sludge Heel Removal Analysis for Slurry Pumps of Tank